A ‘self-shake’ leads former civil servant to embark on a YOLO entrepreneurial dream

Doree Kovalio left her nine-to-five at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to become an independent travel advisor. Photo courtesy of Doree Kovalio.
Doree Kovalio left her nine-to-five at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to become an independent travel advisor. Photo courtesy of Doree Kovalio.

Doree Kovalio credits a year of living abroad in a tranquil village nestled between the Mediterranean Sea and the Pyrenees mountains as the catalyst for leaving her 20-year career in the public service. “It took about three months to decompress my mind from the day-to-day workload of a full-time job,” she recalls of 2022, when […]

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